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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Duh… the Viv arm most certainly DOES generate a skating force, except for the instant when TAE = 0. Overhung tonearms generate a skating force even at the two null points (TAE= 0), because of headshell offset. Underhung tonearms are the antithesi... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I was driven to this hobby purely by my twin loves for music especially jazz and gadgets of any kind. My mother was an opera singer, so I was exposed to classical music and opera nearly from birth. I remember watching my father assemble a speaker ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Referring to yourself in the third person is a bad sign. Why didn’t you just announce your superiority from the get-go? Would have curtailed the needless debates. This site might then have been renamed “Clearthinker Forum”. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, I would check with Expert Stylus in the UK. They seem to source Ortofon related parts , or suitable replacements. I gather you think the OEM cantilever is not salvageable. | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? I hate to perpetuate this stream of consciousness, but gzm mentions doing his last wash with triton X100 in water and then air drying. I've used and still use water plus isopropyl plus Triton X100 for the past 25-30 years, in my VPI HW17. It bec... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, Based on the post by J Carr in which he discussed various cantilever materials and also expressed the opinion that in retipping or restoring a cartridge, one might be best off sticking to the original chosen cantilever material, on the premi... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, as I mentioned to you earlier, you need not worry about effective mass with either the DV505 or the Viv, but it seems you do enjoy the fretting. I run my MC2000 in my Triplanar with no problems at all . Of course, that judgement is made by m... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? For what it’s worth, I am using a custom built, solid state current driven head amp in front of my tube phono stage with MM levels of gain. The results are impeccable, terrific. I love it. I did it because you have to go out of your way for gain i... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijostyn, are you paying attention? Zenith. Most likely none of your cartridges is properly aligned due to zenith errors. Which means you’re in no position to preach about TAE. The ancient alignment gods, Lofgren and Baerwald, didn’t have to think... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Curt, goodbye. I apologize for engaging you. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm So I suppose that the traditionalists all use 12-inch tonearms, to minimize TAE as much as possible with a pivoted tonearm, and that they are aware of the effect of zenith errors on perfect alignment. Which is to say that zenith errors, which are... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Curt, what’s funny to me is that you think $4000 is an extravagant, irresponsible amount of money to spend on a TT and tonearm. Whereas I rank it as a sweet spot where you can get a lot of bang for the buck, and I rank your hypothetical $100 Sansu... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? I’ve seen various numbers for the internal resistance of these wood bodied Koetsus, but never so low as 3 ohms, except maybe for the Platinum version, e.g., Rosewood Platinum. My info suggests 5-6 ohms, but would still mate well with a current dri... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, You wrote, "VIV comes with no off-set angle and with a TAE of around 10° and due that only exist one null point the TAE 90% of the time is truly nearr to those 10°..." That’s just not true at all. Only at the extremes of the arc the tonearm ... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? You HAVE already added mass to the tonearm, by using an 18g headshell. So there is absolutely no need to butcher your turntable in the process of changing the tonearm. That said, my experience with an Urushi does suggest that Koetsus like a high ... |